Comments on: Where’s the poppy, Google?

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:08:50 +0000

Shame on Google, No poppy, no mention, how can that be? Totally disappointed for sure. Susan

By: cindy van loan

cindy van loan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:00:55 +0000

Also here in Canada, I was very upset and extremely disppointed not to see a poppy on the homepage. I could not find where to email but I did call and leave a message. Lest we forget.

By: kat

kat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:53:01 +0000

Yes I agree,Google can put Seasame on all week ,but on the 11th no poppy ..shame on Google…Kat

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:18:14 +0000

Too little too late, Google. It just compounds their disrespectfulness: clearly the criticism levelled at them has been the only reason for adding the image, not a desire to pay tribute to our soldiers, otherwise there’d have been a lovely, respectful image ready to be added first thing this morning, not the rush job they’ve churned out over the last hour. Ridiculous.

By: kristin

kristin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:14 +0000

Here in Canada, there is no poppy on the English page. There is a poppy link underneath the Google name on the French page. I’m disappointed.

By: Catherine Elliott

Catherine Elliott — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:49:52 +0000

A poppy finally arrived at 11.40 am on the 11th November. A bit late but better than nothing!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:46:44 +0000

They’ve added a poppy now, better late than never!

By: fiona

fiona — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:32:05 +0000

Boycott Google and use Bing today as a mark of respect, and to make a point.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:17:42 +0000

At least Bing.com marked the occasion with a lovely picture of a poppy field. #shameongoogle

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:07:56 +0000

Google’s spokesperson: “I’m sure we have something planned in time for 11 o’clock. Obviously it is extremely important.”
Well, it’s gone eleven and it’s still the standard Google homepage.
Sunday’s ‘Sesame Street’ choice was insensitive and disrespectful. However, not to issue an apology or try to make amends with a fitting tribute to our fallen soldiers today is disgraceful and inexcusable.

By: BARBARA STRAUGHN

BARBARA STRAUGHN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:57:27 +0000

QUITE RIGHT
Google, once again you have demonstrated that you are only interested in MONEY, MONEY, MONEY and are not representative of the United Kingdom despite your dominance of the market.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:57:22 +0000

No Google Doodle today either on any of the Google websites you would expect to see it on. I’ve snet another complaint for them to ignore:

I emailed you on Sunday about your decision to mark Remembrance Sunday with a picture of the Cookie Monster off Sesame Street rather that the poppy but received no reply. Talking to people, the general consensus was that it was disrespectful and insensitive but some people were prepared to give Google the benefit of the doubt and wait until Remembrance Day, the actual Remembrance Day itself, when they felt sure that Google would bring back the poppy logo used in previous years.

How wrong they were. I’ve checked the UK, US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African, French and Belgian versions of Google and not one of them bears a poppy despite it being either a public holiday or national day of remembrance associated with the poppy in all those countries.

After spending a week marking Sesame Street’s 40th birthday with special Google logos, even putting the American kids TV programme before a national day of remembrance for fallen soldiers on Sunday, completely failing to mark Remembrance Day at all is not just insensitive and disrespectful, it is an insult to the memory of the millions of people around the world who lost their lives to make sure our generation had the opportunity to live in (relative) freedom.

Stuart

By: Dillon

Dillon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:23:37 +0000

I too was disgusted.

Apparently they’ll have a poppy on 11th, but that doesn’t make up for their crass insensitivity.

Remebrance Sunday has been the official day for many decades and it’s only in recent years that there has been a 2 minute silence on the 11th too.

Shame on Google.

I looked for a complaint e-mail address at their site and couldn’t find it so thanks for posting.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:07:42 +0000

The 11th is the correct day for celebrating so maybe they will then…

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:52:52 +0000

I also emailed the press office and ukdoodle@googlemail.com as well, which is the email address Google Doodles (the special occasion logos).

By: Jamws Wood

Jamws Wood — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:42:44 +0000

i have emailed

press-uk@google.com.

informing them of my dissapointment

By: jamie

jamie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:59 +0000

yes this is disgusting i see this as one of the important days of the year and google chooses to remember it by putting up a picture of Elmo

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:29:04 +0000

Maybe they will mark the 11th (Remembrance day itself).

By: subrosa

subrosa — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:07:03 +0000

Well said. You have my support in this but of course, there’s no money in it for Google.